AlphaGo creator remains confident

AlphaGo creator remains confident Program is about more than just a game, says CEO Demis Hassabis Feb 24,2016 Demis Hassabis [DEEPMIND] Demis Hassabis, the CEO of AlphaGo developer DeepMind Technologies, tried to remain humble, but was clearly confident in the capabilities of his program in the biggest match between man and computer in the 21st century since IBM’s Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov.Hassabis met with the JoongAng Ilbo at the company’s headquarters in London, where he showed his strong faith in artificial intelligence and its ability to contribute to humanity.“We’ve been training AlphaGo the way we trained it for the Fan Hui game,” said Hassabis. “But we’ve been using more time and processing, in trying to make the neural network stronger and more powerful. Actually, the way we…